BATMAN (THE), 15 CHAPTER SERIAL, 1943

THE BATMAN
15 CHAPTER SERIAL
1943

PLOT:
In his first screen appearance, the Caped Crusader of Gotham City (belying the lethargic facade of his alter ego Bruce Wayne) battles Dr. Daka, Japanese mastermind of a wartime espionage-sabotage group. Daka has a radium-powered death ray that pulverizes walls, a classic alligator pit to dispose of enemies, and can turn men into electronic zombies who do his bidding and transmit video signals to Daka's lab! Batman has no Batmobile, but there are bats in the Bat Cave.

Cast:
Lewis Wilson .... Batman/Bruce Wayne
Douglas Croft .... Robin/Richard 'Dick' Grayson
J. Carrol Naish .... Dr. Tito Daka
Shirley Patterson .... Linda Page

CHAPTERS:
1. The Electrical Brain
2. The Bat's Cave
3. The Mark of the Zombies
4. Slaves of the Rising Sun
5. The Living Corpse
6. Poison Peril
7. The Phoney Doctor
8. Lured by Radium
9. The Sign of the Sphinx
10. Flying Spies
11. A Nipponese Trap
12. Embers of Evil
13. Eight Steps Down
14. The Executioner Strikes
15. The Doom of the Rising Sun

RUNNING TIME: 260 min